@article{1449548,
      recid = {1449548},
      author = {Zhao, Yiheng, and Fang, Xiaoli, and Fang, Xu,},
      title = {Philosophical semiotics : the coming into being of the  world of meaning /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {This book attempts to solve the question whether semiotics  is a methodology as is generally held and if the studies of  meaning and the mind can shed light on a series of  metaphysical issues, so that the edifice of semiotics could  be erected on a philosophical ground. It proposes that a  philosophical semiotics is, by necessity, a semiotic  phenomenology about the construction of the "world of  meaning" by signs, and any discussion about semiotics has  to proceed around two core issues: meaning and the mind.  This book particularly exemplifies the semiotic connections  in various schools of traditional Chinese philosophies. In  the "Pre-Imperial Age" (before BC 300), there emerged an  abundance of semiotic thinking in China, from Yijing the  first sign system that aims to explain everything in the  world, to the Namistss subtle argument about the form of  meaning, from the Yin-Yang/five elements of the Han, to the  "Things are non-existent while mind is non-non-existent"  principle of the Vijnaptimatratasiddhi School of Buddhism  in the Tang, and from the Sudden Revelation of Chan  Buddhism to the "Nothing outside the mind" endorsed by the  Mindist Confucianism in the Ming. The mighty trend of  philosophical heritage provides rich food to our  understanding of the form of meaning.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1449548},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3057-7},
}